Means for handling loads in vehicles



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G. H. PRIDE MEANS FOR HANDLING LOADS IN VEHICLES Filed July 29, 1944 4Sheets-Sheet 4 I N V EN TOR GEO/F65 P/P/OE ATTORNEYS Patented May 27,1947 OFFICE MEANS FOR HANDLING LOADS IN VEHICLES George H. Pride, NewYork, N. Y.

Application July 29, 1944, Serial No. 547,216

4 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in means for handling loads invehicles and pertains more particularly to coacting means for separatelyshifting plural load units of mate rial from the floor of a vehicle ontoa supporting surface at the exterior of the vehicle, or vice versa.

The present invention is also useful in unloading and loading a vehicle,wherein plural load units may be shifted mechanically from within thevehicle onto a tailboard thereof and then raised or lowered to asuitable discharge supporting surface or platform or may be shiftedmechanically from the tailboard into the vehicle. The term vehicle isused herein and in the accompanying claims to include a truck, trailer,car, or other shipping receptacle or container which may be adapted toreceive material to be transported from one point to another.

An important object is the provision of a pallet or removable floorplate of a vehicle upon which a unit of material may be disposed andwhich is adapted to cooperate with other elements of the mechanism to bewithdrawn from beneath a unit of material during an unloading operationto deposit said unit upon skids or the like without breaking up theunit.

Another important object is the provision of plural pallets or removablefloor plates of a vehicle upon each of which a unit of material may beassembled upon skids or the like, each pallet of floor plate beingadapted to cooperate with other elements of the mechanism to shiftitself, with its load unit, from the skids, onto the floor supportingportion of the vehicle.

Another object is the provision of means for mechanically loading pluralload units of material separately into a vehicle without breaking up theunits and also for mechanically unloading such units from a vehiclewithout breaking them up.

Another object of the present invention is the provision of a vehicleloading and unloading mechanism capable of handling large loads or unitsof material with much less manual operation or control than heretofore.

Another object of the invention is the provision of mechanical means forseparately shifting units of material from a tailboard of a ve hicleinto the said vehicle or for separately shifting the units out of thevehicle onto its tailboard, the tailboard being capable of being raisedor lowered to aid in accomplishing this object.

These and other objects and advantages are derived from the presentinvention, of which,

for the purpose of illustration; one embodiment is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings of which- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinalsectional view of the rear end of a truck trailer embodying the presentinvention, showing the load unit shifting mechanism prepared for pullinga unit of material into the trailer, this view being substantially onthe line |l of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the loading and tailboard elevatingmechanism, the actual trailer structure for the most part being omittedfor clearness, although some portions of the trailer are indicated inbroken lines in order to properly indicate the location of the variousoperating parts of said mechanism.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary cross-sectional view substantially on the line3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary cross-sectional view substantially on the line44 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of plural removable floor plates ofthe trailer, sometimes referred to herein as a pallet.

Fig. 6 is a diagram of certain parts of the load unit shifting mechanismprepared, as in Fig. l, for pulling a unit of material into or onto thetrailer.

Fig. 7 is a diagram somewhat similar to Fig. 6 but showing the relationof the parts of the shifting mechanism after the unit of material hasbeen pulled into or onto the trailer.

Fig. 8 is a diagram somewhat similar to Fig. 6 but showing the shiftingmechanism prepared for pulling a unit of material from within thetrailer or from a position thereon.

Fig. 9 is a diagram somewhat similar to Fig. 8 but showing the relationof the parts of the mechanism after the unit has been pulled from withinor on the trailer onto the tailboard thereof.

Fig. 10 is a diagram of the load unit shifting mechanism somewhatsimilar to Fig. 6, the parts of the mechanism, however, being shownprepared for pulling a pallet from a unit of material without, however,disturbing the other parts of said unit.

An exemplary vehicle in which the invention may be employed Referring toFigs. 1, 3 and 4, a trailer with stringer being shown, a plurality oftransverse bolsters l8 suitably supported upon said stringers, alongitudinal plate l9 extending from the front to the rear of thetrailer along each side thereof and supported upon said bolsters, (seeFigs. 3 and 4), a plurality of transverse rollers 20 suitably journaledat opposite ends in the plates I9 and fill-in flooring or sub-flooring21 supported by the plates l9 and so arranged between said rollers thatthe upper surfaces of the sub-flooring are in a substantially horizontalplane slightly below the top surfaces of said rollers.

Although an open vehicle may employ the invention, nevertheless, asillustrated, a suitable body may be mounted on the chassis I and maycomprise a top 22 supported by a plurality of side uprights 23 which aresuitably fixed at their lower end upon or into the plates IS in suchfashion as to afford sufficient rigidity to the body of the trailer. Topresent a smooth inside wall surface, a lining 24 of sheet metal,plywood, or other suitable material, may be fixed to the inner sides ofthe uprights 23.

A tailboard 25 is preferably pivoted at its forward end, as at 26, tolugs 21 which are integral with or suitably fixed to the lower ends ofupright sliding columns 28, which, as best seen in Fig, 2, slidevertically within complementally hollowed rear stanchions 29 at oppositesides of the trailer body at the rear end thereof. The stanchions areprovided with vertical slots 30 through which the lugs 21 extend and inwhich the latter slide as the tailboard is raised or lowered ashereinafter explained.

Toggle tailboard supports 3| may be pivoted to the tailboard 25 atopposite sides thereof as at 32 and may extend through the slots 38 topivotal connections with the columns 28 as at 33. Vertical recesses 34in the said columns, extending downwardly from the connections 33, areadapted to receive the folded tailboard supports 3! which breakdownwardly when the tailboard is pivoted to a vertical or closedposition.

The load unit shifting mechanism The load unit shifting mechanism,generally speaking, comprises substantially similar pallets 35 (Fig. 5)each of which is adapted to support a load unit A, comprising materialsuitably stacked upon the pallet, and suitably actuated cables, workingover a system of sheaves, for individually moving each pallet, and aload unit thereon, substantially horizontally into or out of thevehicle.

Each of the pallets 35 preferably comprises a body portion 36 of sheetmetal or other material suitable for the purposes hereinafter described.Opposite side edges preferably are reinforced by upstanding flanges 31extending somewhat beyond the rear edge 38 of the pallet and somewhatshort of the forward edge 39 of the pallet. Each pallet preferably maybe provided with holes 49 at the rear ends of the flanges 31, holes 4!at the forward ends of said flanges, recesses 42 at each rear corner ofthe body portion 36, and recesses 43 at each forward corner of said bodyportion, all for purposes hereinafter explained. The several pallets areof a width only slightly less than the interior width of the vehiclebody and substantially of a length of which the interior length of thevehicle body is a multiple. When the vehicle is loaded, the severalpallets. each supporting a load unit. are substantially in the endwiserelationship indicated in Fig. 8. Thus it will be seen that the severalpallets 35 constitute the floor of the vehicle: and the said pallets arereferred to hereinafter in the claims as floor plates.

The cable and sheave system of the load um't shifting mechanism, as bestunderstood from Figs. 1 and 2,comprises substantially identical cablesand sheaves at opposite sides of the vehicle; therefore the said cableand sheave system is described chiefly with respect to only one side ofthe vehicle. The reference characters in the various cable and sheavesystems disclosed in the drawings may be considered as applicable tosimilar parts at opposite sides of the vehicle, except as otherwiseindicated.

A double-acting hydraulic cylinder 44 is preferably fixed in ahorizontal position in the chassis in any suitable manner as, forexample, by being fixed at its forward end to one of the transversebolsters l8 as at IBa. The cylinder 44 may have a piston 45 fixed to theinner end of a piston rod 46 which extends through a suitable packing 41and has a crosshead 48 fixed upon its outer end. Upon opposite ends of ashaft 49 extending through said crosshead are mounted free-runningsheaves 59, 50a, and guide rollers 5|, 5ia, which may work withinsuitable horizontal guideways 52, 52a, to restrain the crosshead 48against any material turning or cooking. The sheave 50a, is a part ofthe sheave system on the side of the vehicle which is not hereinspecifically described and functions similarly to sheave 50.

A cable 53 may be suitably anchored at one end as at 54, to a bolster l8disposed forwardly of the cylinder 44. Tracing the course of the cable53 from said anchorage, it extends rearwardly to and around sheave 59,then forwardly to and around sheave 55, then rearwardly into guidingengagement with sheave 56, then to the lower side of sheave 51 andupwardly around or partially around the latter to a point above thelevel of the sub-flooring 2 I. From this point the cable 53 may, asdesired by the operator for various purposes, be extended in either ofseveral ways as indicated in Figs. 6-10. Thus, as in Figs. 6 and 7, itmay be extended forwardly from sheave 51 to and around sheave.58, thencerearwardly to its free end upon which may be secured a suitable hook 59for purposes hereinafter explained.

In an alternativ cable arrangement, as in Figs. 8 and 9, the cable 53may pass from the sheave 51 to and over a sheave 60, then rearwardly toand around a sheave 6| at the rear end of the tailboard 25, thence tothe hook 59 on its free end. The arrangement of cable 53 upon itssheaves, in Fig. 10, is similar to that of Fig. 6, although for adifferent purpose, as will be explained.

The several sheaves in the shifting mechanism are preferably disposedsubstantially as shown in the drawings and suitable sheave mountings, of

course, are provided. Sheaves 55 and 56 preferably turn upon verticalshafts which may be carried rigidly in suitable brackets secured to afixed part of the chassis I 5. Such a bracket 56a, carrying the sheave56, is shown in Fig. 4. The sheaves 51, 58, 60, 6|, preferably turn uponhorizontal transversely extending shafts carried rigidly in suitablebrackets secured to the chassis l5 or (as with sheave 6|) to thetailboard 25.

It should be observed that, to facilitate changing of the cable 53 asbetween the several mentioned alternative dispositions thereof upon itsrelated sheaves, the sheaves 58 and BI, preferably, are mounted uponstub shafts which are supported only atone side of the sheave so thatthe cable may be readily placed upon or removed from the said sheaveswithout involving threading of the cable around the sheaves. Thus,referring to Fig. 3 the sheave 58 turns upon a stub shaft 62' which maybe fixed, at its'i'nner end, into the upright flange 63 of an anglebracket 64. The latter may be securely fastened down by bolts 66extending through the horizontal flange 61 of the bracket 64 and thelongitudinal plate H]. To afford additional rigidity to the bracket 64,the flange 63 may be riveted, as at 68, to a metal angle stringer 69which preferably extends longitudinally along the bottom of the interiorof the side wall of the vehicle and serves as a guideway for the pallets36. The stringer 59 may be suitably secured to the uprights 23 and maybe additionally secured to the longitudinal plate l9 in any suitablemanner.

From Fig. 3 it maybe understood that the cable 53 may be placed upon orremoved from the sheave 58 by the operator from the exterior of thevehicle. The body lining 24 at and rearwardly of the sheave 58 extendsdownwardly only toa point above the top of the said sheave as at 24a,and the uprights 23, rearwardly of said sheave, are cut out at the innersides of their lower ends, as at 23a, sufficiently to provide clearworking space for.the cable 53 and for the changing of the latter asbetween its mentioned alternative dispositions. An inverted L shapedcover or door 10, may be hinged as at H to the body lining '24 to coverthe said sheave and cable. This cover, of course may easily be swungoutwardly and upwardly to afford access to the sheave and cable. Asomewhat similar, although longer door or cover 12 may be providedrearwardly of the cover III for covering sheaves 51 and 60 and the cable53' while nevertheless affording access thereto. Similar doors or coversmay be provided, of course, at the opposite side of' the vehicle.

The mounting of the sheave 6| may be generally similar to the mountingof sheave 58 in that the stub-shaft 13 of the sheave BI is supportedonly at one side of the latter in a bracket 14 which may be suitablyfixed upon the rear of the tailboard 25 in the general positionindicated in Figs. 1 and 2. Thus the cable 53 may easily be placed uponand removed from the said sheave.

The sheaves 51 and 60 may turn upon shafts 15 and 16 respectively, asshown in Fig. 4, supported at their opposite ends in plates H and. 18which may extend through a slot 19 in the longitudinal plat I 9 and beriveted or otherwise secured to the stringer 69 and to an angle bracket80, the latter being suitably mounted upon the plate I9 as by bolts 8|,of which one is shown in Fig. 4.

The particular means for supplying pressure fluid to the cylinder 44 arenot shown in detail as various means may be employed for that purpose.It should suffice to observe that pipes 44a, Mb, connected to ports 44c,44d, at opposite ends of said cylinder (Fig. 1), may be connected, in awell understood manner, to a reversible fluid pump or to a reversiblevalve in a suitable hydraulic system, the control means of said pump orvalve being disposed in a. suitable location convenient for operation bythe operator of the vehicle.

The tailboard elevating mechanism The tailboard elevating mechanism, asmay be I understood from Fig. 2 may employ a hydraulic cylinder andguided crosshead assembly, generally identified as 82, which issubstantially similar to thehydraulic arrangement hereinbefore describedwith respect to the load unit shifting mechanism. As with the saidshifting mechanism, substantially identical sheave and cable assembliesare provided at each side of the vehicle, for raising and lowering thetailboard 25, and, therefore, the sheave and cable assembly for only oneside of the tailboard is described herein.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, the sheave and cable assemblyof the tailboard elevating mechanism,,at the left side of the vehicle,comprises a cable 83, the forward end of which is arranged to coact withthe hydraulic assembly 82 to be actuated thereby in the same manner ascable 53 is actuated by the hydraulic cylinder assembly of the load unitshifting mechanism.

The cable 83 extends rearwardly to and partially around sheave 84 whichis suitably mounted upon the chassis [5 as by a bracket 85 and bolts orscrews 86, 81, thence upwardly to and around sheave 88, mounted upon ashort shaft 89 which is carried in the upper end of stanchion 29, thencethe cable 83 extends downwardly to and is fixed to the upper end ofupright sliding column 28.

The operation of the mechanism The operation of the mechanism comprisingthe invention may best be understood from Figs. 6-10, inclusive. In afirst of various labor saving uses of the invention, particularlyillustrated by Figs. 6 and 7, a load unit which may be the first desiredto be placed into an empty vehicle, may be placed upon the tailboard 25in any suitable manner as by hand or by use of a conventional lifttruck, at a time when the tailboard is either lowered substantially to afloor or sidewalk level or to the level of a loading platform.

The said load unit when assembled may comprise a pallet 35, and stackedmaterial A on said pallet generally indicated in the drawings as a stackof carton-packed material, preferably arranged within vertical planescoinciding with the four sides of the pallet 35. The load unit, whendisposed exteriorly of the vehicle, preferably is carried upon asuitable skid 90 held against forward or rearward movement on thetailboard by any suitable means as for example by tapered pins 9| whichmay be placed in suitable holes in the tailboard, located forwardly andrearwardly of the skid 90. The pin 9|, preferably, do not extend highenough to interfere with horizontal shifting of the load unit ashereinafter described.

In order to shift the load unit into the vehicle, the tailboard 25, bysuitable operation of its related hydraulic cylinder assembly, isbrought to the height thereof, relatively to the chassis, indicated inFig. 6 wherein the pallet 35 is preferably at least slightly above thelevel of the rearmost roller 20. Then the operator, after assuring thatthe cables 53 are arranged upon their related sheaves in the mannershown in Fig. 6, engages the hooks 59 of said cables in the holes M inthe forward ends of the flanges 31 of the pallet.

The cables 53 are then pulled, in the direction indicated by the arrowthereon, by suitable operation of the related hydraulic assembly,causing the load unit to be slid forwardly to the position thereof shownin Fig. 7, the skid 90 being held upon the tailboard by the pins 9|. Theoperator, from the exterior of the vehicle, may then unhook the cables53 from the pallet 35, after which the load unit, may easily be pushedmanually over the rollers 20, to the front end of the vehicle where itmay be held against undesired shifting longitudinally of the vehicle inany suitable mannor, as for example by tapered pins 92 which, as

shown in Fig. 3, may be inserted in the recesses ing rear ends of theflanges 31 of one pallet would align with the flanges of the nextrearward pallet and nest within the cut-back portion of the flange ofthe latter pallet and the pins 92 would be accommodated by the recesses"and 43 of adja, cent pallets. Ordinarily the interior of the vehicle isof a length to accurately receive a suitable number of pallets withloads thereon. In loading a vehicle, it may be advantageous to interpose suitable dunnaging material, as for example, a removablelattice-like separator 93 between load units in the vehicle as shown inFig. 8. The tailboard 25, of course, may be pivoted upwardly to a closedposition, to fully enclose the load, in a well understood manner.

Another labor saving use of the invention may be derived in unloading avehicle in a manner best understood from Figs. 8, 9, and 10. Let it beassumed that the vehicle to be unloaded was fully loaded in the mannerhereinbefore described. The operator, after pivoting the tailboard, fromits closed position to its open horizontal position, places a skid 90upon the tailboard, inserts pins 9| to prevent shifting of the skid, andraises or lowers tailboard 25 by suitable operation of the hydraulicassembly 82, to bring the upper surface of the skid 90 to a somewhatlower level than the top of the rearmost roller 20. The operator thendisposes the cables 53 upon the various sheaves in the manner shown inFig. 8, engaging the hooks 59 of said cables in the holes 40 in therearward ends of the flanges 31 of the pallet 35 of the rearmost loadunit in the vehicle, access to the cables for this purpose being gainedby merely opening the covers or doors l0, 12.

The pins 92 at the rear of the rearmost load unit are then removed andthe cables 53 are then pulled in the direction indicated by the arrowthereon, by suitable operation of their related hydraulic assembly,causing load unit to be partly rolled and partly slid from within thevehicle to its position upon the skid 90 indicated in Fig. 9. At thisstage in operation, if desired, the cable 53 may be unhooked from theload unit and the tailboard lowered or raised substantially to floorlevel or to the level of any other receiving platform or supportingsurface. The unit may then be removed from the tailboard and the goodsremoved from the pallet 35 by hand or by other suitable means. Accordingto this disposition however it would ordinarily be necessary to break upthe stack of material to enable the truck operator to retrieve thepallet which may be needed for further handling of loads in thecontinued operation of the vehicle, and therefore the present inventionincludes means for removing the pallet from beneath the stack ofmaterial while, nevertheless, leaving the latter intact.

In order to remove the pallet 35 from beneath the stack of materialwhich it supports, the operator, upon getting the load unit onto theskid 90 as shown in Fig. 9, changes the cable 53 from the dispositionshown in the latter figure, to that shown in Fig. 10, then inserts arather long crossbar 94 in a position between the lowermost packages ofthe stacked unit of material and the rear of the vehicle body, moreparticularly the stanchions 29 thereof. The said crossbar of course,should be long enough to extend sufficiently to overlap both saidstanchions. The pallet 35 may then be easily removed by pullin thecables 53 in the direction indicated by the arrow thereon by suitableoperation of its related hydraulic assembly. This causes the pallet 35to be pulled forcibly out of its relation to the load unit, the skidbeing held firmly by the foremost pins 9| and the stacked material beingheld firmly by the crossbar 94. After the pallet 35 has been removedfrom the load unit the tailboard may be lowered or raised as required,and the stacked material, on the skid, may be removed from the tailboardin any suitable marmer. Other load units in the vehicle may easily berolled manually to positions adjacent the doorway and then be removedfrom the vehicle in the manner just described.

In the present description and in the accompanying claims, the loadunit, in any of the several slightly diiferent horizontal positionsshown in Figs. 6-10, is considered as being in substantial registry withthe load supporting surface or the rearmost roller 20 of the Vehicle.

Conclusion It should be apparent, from the foregoing, that the presentinvention is directed to certain principles which lend themselves tosubstantial labor savings in the handling of material, particularly inloading and unloading vehicles; also in permitting very eificienthandling of units of material which are referred to herein as loadunits.

The present disclosure has been confined to one of many ways in whichthe invention may be advantageously practiced, and the details of somefeatures such as the hydraulic pumping and control systems, andrefinements such as means for taking up slack in cables, and otherfeatures any of which may be supplied or varied in ways well within thescope of ordinary mechanical skill, have been omitted herefrom to avoidsubmerging the broad inventive concept in mere details and variations.

Although only a single embodiment of the invention has been describedand illustrated herein, it should be obyious that the invention may bepracticed in various other embodiments within the scope of the inventionas defined in the following claims.

What I claim is:

1. Load handling means comprising a vehicle having load-supportingmeans, plural separately movable floor sections each adapted, intransit, to carry a separate load thereon and to rest upon saidload-supporting means; an adjustable cable and sheave assembly carriedby the vehicle and adapted, in one adjustment, to be connected to afloor section and to move the latter horizontally with its load, uponand from the said load-supporting means, onto a platform at the exteriorof the vehicle; and abutment means coacting with the vehicle and with aload on the platform for holding the load against material horizontalmovement; the said cable and sheave assembly being adapted, in anotheradjustment, to be connected to a floor section under a load so held uponthe platform, and to withdraw said fioor section from beneath its loadwhile the latter continues to be supported upon the platform.

2. Load handling means comprising a vehicle having a series ofsubstantially fiat, separately movable load-carrying elements arrangedin line, a loading and unloading way at on end of said series, and meansfor supporting said elements, and loads thereon, substantially inabutting relationship, in transit; means coacting with the vehicle andwith the said elements, successively, for moving the latter, with theirloads thereon, horizontally upon and from said supporting means, throughsaid way, onto a load receiving surface at the exterior of the vehicle,and for withdrawing said elements from beneath their respective loadswhile the weight of the load continues to be supported by said receivingsurface; and means coacting with a load, so supported, and a portion ofthe vehicle, for holding the load against material horizontal movementduring withdrawal of the related load-carrying element. 3. A vehiclecomprising an elongate body; load-supporting means; plural,substantially flat, separately movable load-carrying elements, adaptedto be supported upon the said load-supporting means, in abuttingrelationship, in series, longitudinally of the body; a loading passageat one end of the body; an adjustable device, carried by the vehicle,for successively moving said elements horizontally through said passage;the said device, in one adjustment, being adapted for connection to aload-carrying element and to move the element from its position upon thesaid load-supporting means, without materially elevating it from thelatter, thence through said loading passage and onto a load receivingsurface disposed at the exterior of the vehicle at substantially thesame level as the said load-supporting means; and means for holding aload against material horizontal movement while supported upon said loadreceiving surface; the said device, in another adjustment, beingadapted, when connected to a load carrying element resting upon saidreceiving surface, to withdraw the said element from beneath the loadthereon while the load is so held against horizontal movement andremains supported upon said receiving surface.

4. Load handling means comprising a vehicle having load-supportingmeans, and plural separately movable floor sections each adapted, intransit, to carry a separate load thereon and to rest upon saidload-supporting means; adjustable means carried by the vehicle forseparately moving said floor sections and adapted, in one adjustment, tobe connected to a floor section and to move the latter horizontally witha load thereon, from the said load-supporting means onto a platform atthe exterior of the vehicle; and means for holding a load againstmaterial horizontal movement while supported upon such a platform; thesaid means for moving said floor sections, in another adjustment, beingadapted, when connected to a floor section resting upon such a platform,to withdraw the said floor section from beneath a load thereon while theload is so held against horizontal movement and remains supported uponsaid platform.

GEORGE H. PRIDE.

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